Via The Economist: The towns are in New York’s Southern Tier. They sit on top of the Marcellus Shale, which is full of natural gas. New Yorkers, unlike their Pennsylvanian neighbours, are not allowed to tap the gas because of a state ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) announced by Andrew Cuomo, the governor, on December 17th. Hours later on the same day, a state panel | Read More »

Welcome back to the RedState 2016 Presidential Primary Power Rankings! To view the complete series of these posts, click here. As always, this post is intended to be merely predictive of who actually will win the nomination, and is not intended to be an indication of anyone’s preferences, much less RedState’s preferences. As it was last week, this list is compiled from the votes of | Read More »

I told y’all he was lying when he puffed his chest and said he’d stop the President. He had no intention of doing so. And now will ensure President Obama’s executive amnesty is funded. He will, like so many other Republican leaders, hide behind a court to fight for him. Coward.

By the time you read this, the drama may be over, the Constitution shredded, the GOP held in disrepute by everyone except the Chamber of Commerce, and gagged and shackled in a dark basement while films his “personal trainer” having his way with them, and Barack Obama on his way to unrestrained power. Leaders detailed their plan at a closed-door GOP conference meeting beginning at | Read More »

On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Leon Wolf to discuss the winners and losers of CPAC, if Scott Walker’s background will help him in 2016 and why Hillary is a different kind of Clinton.

Whether by ignorance or design a large number of GOP members in the House and Senate are misrepresenting what is a stake with the funding of the Department of Homeland security. The issue has nothing to do with the operations of an agency where well over 80% of it will stay on the job regardless of what action the Congress takes. The issue is not | Read More »

As I mentioned this morning former McCain National Finance Co-Chairman Fred Malek’s group, American Action Network, is running ads attacking conservative congressmen for not funding Obama’s executive amnesty. Everyone knows the attacks are coordinated on behalf of . They are not even trying to hide it. The head of the group is the former head of the National Republican Congressional Committee. The head of the | Read More »

The American Action Network claims to be a “conservative” group. It was started by prominent Republican, Fred Malek, who maintains close ties to the Establishment and was Finance Co-Chairman of ‘s 2008 Presidential campaign. It is run by Mike Shields, formerly of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Prior to Shields, Brian Walsh of the NRCC ran it. It was founded by and previously run by | Read More »